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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> "Many in our community are suspicious of the CodePlex Foundation. With its
>> board of directors dominated by Microsoft employees and ex-employees, plus
>> apologist Miguel de Icaza, there is plenty of reason to be wary of the
>> organization. But that doesn't prove its actions will be bad.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> "This foundation is not the first Microsoft project to bear the name
>> "CodePlex". There is also codeplex.com, a project hosting site, whose list
>> of allowed licenses excludes GNU GPL version 3. Perhaps this reflects the
>> fact that GPL version 3 is designed to protect a program's free software
>> status from being subverted by Microsoft's patents through deals like the
>> Novell-Microsoft pact. We don't know that the CodePlex Foundation will try
>> to discourage GPL version 3, but it would fit Microsoft's pattern.
>>
>> "The term "commercial software companies" embodies a peculiar confusion.
>> Every business is by definition commercial, so all software developed by a
>> business-- whether free or proprietary--is automatically commercial
>> software. But there is a widespread public confusion between "commercial
>> software" and "proprietary software"
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> "Perhaps the aim of CodePlex is to suborn free software application
>> developers into making Windows their main platform. Many of the projects
>> hosted now on codeplex.com are add-ons for proprietary software.
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> The purpose of codeplex is to be as stubborn as possible
> to resist wide spread adoption of GPL3.
>
>
> More businesses and projects adopting GPL3 making it stronger
> in the commercial market and once again the purpose
> of codeplex licensing is to stubbornly force
> businesses away from adopting GPL by promising
> micoshaft ropey crap x in exchange for
> ???
> future profit!
>
> It is not enough that micoshaft will get killed by GPL3
> but they want to drag down with them as many businesses
> as they can when they go down by denying them all the
> benefits of early GPL3 adoption and vast sea of software
> and resources open source offers that micoshaft ropey
> code CAN NEVER offer.
>
> That is the purpose of codeplex crap.
>
> The purpose of codeplex is to lie and lie and lie
> with anti-GPL rhetoric to businesses until they drop dread.
You mean "dead"?
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